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August 14, 2013

Are we naked with or without data?

Chapter Five: The big P and little p of transformation: once you have stormed the Bastille, you don’t go back to your day job

As the shape of our world evolves, we are also in political transformation, both in terms of the political relationship between the individual and commercial organisations and the large Politics of how we organise and run our societies. What should government look like in a non-linear world? Are we creating and running the right systems in the right way? How does data change/impact the process of democracy and civil organisation? Refined data is the black gold of the 21st Century.

Data, democracy and identity: Where to start on this particular part of the journey through our non-linear world? The first step must address the issue of data; who would have thought even in 2005, that consumer politics and societal politics would revolve around data, who has it, who owns it and how it is used, combined with the legal frameworks that protect us as citizens.

Data is integral to what comes next, thinking from a perspective of openness and aesthetics of design in that only ugly thoughts bring to bear ugly realities. It may not at first seem a clear connection between data, individual sovereignty and democracy. However once we understand that at high level the commercial world seeks to influence and in some cases coerce political institutions then we have to see them as linked. Or indeed that political ideology seeks to direct the course of political outcomes as is the case in Pennsylvania at the moment and elsewhere where Republicans seeks to make it much harder for various sections of the African-American community to vote in the hope they weaken Obama’s chances of re-election.

In Britain there are attempts by the Government of the day to legislate so that they can access and extract comprehensive, fine-grained covert surveillance of entire populations. All our digital activity: voice, text, Google searches, a level of surveillance that is unprecedented and perhaps pernicious.

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"So are we naked with or without data? The fact is we are already so immersed in the stuff its [sic] impossible to go backwards."

We can't conduct normal human interaction in this society without generating data in several databases, so the trick is to manage the creation of the data. Self-censor in various media, taking into account its potential for abuse. Do not email anything sensitive; use PGP or S/MIME if the contents are sensitive but the headers are not. I'm using Privacy and Incognito mode in my browsers, even though I'm pretty sure there is only slight benefit to privacy.

Also consider the 1859 Carrington Event. That was the first major solar storm after the world discovered commercial uses for electricity, and it caused quite a bit of damage to telegraph systems. Our electronic devices these days are much more sensitive to voltage fluctuations than the telegraph systems, so it would be interesting to see what another Carrington Event would do to them.

For starters, almost all in the lenders have a website, which allow the objective clients to complete online web forms and submit their applications in the comfort of their homes not fake it is for the own good if you stay inside the good books of one's bank because or even, you may have to face serious consequences like a a low credit score history.

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Tomi Ahonen is a bestselling author whose twelve books on mobile have already been referenced in over 100 books by his peers. Rated the most influential expert in mobile by Forbes in December 2011, Tomi speaks regularly at conferences doing about 20 public speakerships annually. With over 250 public speaking engagements, Tomi been seen by a cumulative audience of over 100,000 people on all six inhabited continents. The former Nokia executive has run a consulting practise on digital convergence, interactive media, engagement marketing, high tech and next generation mobile. Tomi is currently based out of Hong Kong but supports Fortune 500 sized companies across the globe. His reference client list includes Axiata, Bank of America, BBC, BNP Paribas, China Mobile, Emap, Ericsson, Google, Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, IBM, Intel, LG, MTS, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Ogilvy, Orange, RIM, Sanomamedia, Telenor, TeliaSonera, Three, Tigo, Vodafone, etc. To see his full bio and his books, visit www.tomiahonen.com Tomi Ahonen lectures at Oxford University's short courses on next generation mobile and digital convergence. Follow him on Twitter as @tomiahonen. Tomi also has a Facebook and Linked In page under his own name. He is available for consulting, speaking engagements and as expert witness, please write to tomi (at) tomiahonen (dot) com

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